Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles, smashed through Belgium, through Mons and down the Oise, occupied 14,000 square miles of France, Belgium and Luxembourg. The French plan of an offensive through the German centre had been abandoned. At Paris, in the headquarters of General Joffre, commanding the French forces, the shock had bereft most officers of any plan except continued retreat...
...Washington's Naval Hospital, death from heart disease came suddenly last week to Herman Oliphant, 54, grey-locked, hollow-eyed general counsel of the Treasury Department. It left the Treasury bereft of the most earnest economic experimenter remaining there since the withdrawal of the late Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Herman Oliphant, a law scholar before he was a financier and a liberal before he was a lawyer, was the prime advocate of the Undistributed Profits Tax, written into the tax law of 1936. All but the bare principle of that tax, which Franklin Roosevelt loved...
...United States can ask the League of Nations to transfer the Palestine mandate to them and our government, if not entirely bereft of its senses, will hand it over tied up with a blue ribbon and a courteous note of thanks for favors rendered," the newspaper said...
Terming the Panay bombing "a shocking blunder," Ambassador Saito said that there is "no compensation which mortal man can make that is adequate for the families bereft...
Confession (Warner Bros.). A onetime gay Polish opera diva, Vera (Kay Francis) is so bereft when her husband Leonide. a nice fattish army officer (Ian Hunter), goes away to the War that she drinks too much at a wild Warsaw party given by her old trouper friends, passes out in the arms of Michael Michailow (Basil Rathbone), a melancholy musician perennially bent on seduction. When Leonide finds Vera in Michailow's apartment he jumps heavily at the worst conclusion, promptly divorces her and takes her baby daughter. Years later Daughter Lisa (Jane Bryan), fatherless now and unaware that Vera...